I’ve been doing a lot of Orga­ni­za­tional Devel­op­ment related work the past nine years. In fact, even before any­one told me that I was doing Orga­ni­za­tional Devel­op­ment, I was actu­ally doing it already. Before, OD was merely about train­ing. And so OD depart­ments made train­ing pro­grams and took care of train­ing sys­tems and gave inter­nal train­ings and sent peo­ple to exter­nal train­ing. But over the years, there is a real­iza­tion that there are other ways to develop an orga­ni­za­tion aside from train­ing. OD has to do with mak­ing the whole orga­ni­za­tion become a more well-oiled machine, first by inter­ven­ing in per­for­mance man­age­ment, but now, also by inter­ven­ing in cul­ture build­ing. Orga­ni­za­tions have goals (they call it Vision and Mis­sion, or Objec­tives and Targets).

I was inspired after read­ing about this ultra slim wal­let and I think this could really work for some peo­ple. I don’t have this yet, but after I read about it, I imme­di­ately got rid of all the non-essentials in my wal­let. I real­ized there were a lot of stuff there that I don’t really need. This wal­let just makes it so much eas­ier for peo­ple to keep under control.

I now have a microwave, which was part of the “kitchen show­case” I received when I referred a friend to my real estate bro­ker. I tried to clean it once but had a hard time doing it, until I found this arti­cle. I’m shar­ing this to you in the hope that you will have an eas­ier time than I had before I found this article.

Leo Babauta of Zen­Hab­its gives us a list of the best way to have super fast web brows­ing. And it’s not about adding on to the inter­net, it’s about unclut­ter­ing and min­i­mal­ism so that you can do what you really want to do with­out all the clut­ter and the bells and whistles…

Mr. Jones was writ­ten by lead singer Adam Duritz and gui­tarist David Bryson.
In an episode of VH1’s Sto­ry­tellers, Adam explained: “It’s really a song about my friend Marty (Jones, of the band The Himalayans) and I. We went out one night to watch his dad play, his dad was a Fla­menco gui­tar player who lived in Spain, and he was in San Fran­cisco in the mis­sion play­ing with his old Fla­menco troupe. And after the gig we all went to this bar called the New Ams­ter­dam in San Francisco …